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Perspective-aware Manipulation of Portrait Photos

Research from University of Princeton Department of Computer Science demonstrating method to alter portrait selfies as distant camera shots through computation to improve appearance of subject:

This paper introduces a method to modify the apparent relative pose and distance between camera and subject given a single portrait photo. Our approach fits a full perspective camera and a parametric 3D head model to the portrait, and then builds a 2D warp in the image plane to approximate the effect of a desired change in 3D. We show that this model is capable of correcting objectionable artifacts such as the large noses sometimes seen in “selfies,” or to deliberately bring a distant camera closer to the subject. This framework can also be used to re-pose the subject, as well as to create stereo pairs from an input portrait. We show convincing results on both an existing dataset as well as a new dataset we captured to validate our method.

The official website for the project can be found here

A website of interactive demonstrations of results can be found here

Thanks to those who came out for Razer’s VRDC Mixer! I heard many positive comments about their OSVR demos.

These are the concept sprites for a game i’m working on in collaboration with students at Johns Hopkins University.

Ubisoft confirms no Assassin’s Creed game for 2016

For the first time in seven years there will not be a new Assassin’s Creed game out this Christmas.

De eerste #GOTY kanshebber van 2016 is een feit! #farcryprimal is een frisse wind door de serie! #ubisoft #farcryprimal2016 #farcry #ubisoftmontreal #ubisoftkiev #ubisoftshanghai #ubisofttoronto https://shar.es/1C15pE